So, What Do You Get Out Of History ?

[Ed Anger]

Tim. Then form a power bloc with seedy to make ourselves kings.

What, so you could whack me in the counter-revolutionary purge?  NYET SO FAST MY FRIEND

I am the 100%

[HVC]

History is entertaining and interesting. Plus it helps refute those old farts that start every second sentence with "in my day". Screw you, people sucked back then just like they do now.

[FunkMonk]

I think you took that to literally, Yi.

What gave it away? 

[Razgovory]

I think you took that to literally, Yi.

What gave it away? 

Saying someone is dumber then Marty is like saying someone is "as dumb as a stump".  It's a figure of speech.  A hyperbole.  It's physically impossible to be that dumb.

[dps]

"If trapped on a desert island with every member of Languish, who would be the best to cannibalize first?"

Well, I think you'd have to take down the fattest members first, because A) obviously they have more meat on them, and B) otherwise they'll eat everybody else up too quickly.  I'm not sure who's the fattest, though.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I find the question of what you get out of fiction more interesting. I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I've become a hardcore Trollope fan, and I can't work out what it is about him I enjoy so much.

I read the Palliser series this year and the Barsetshire ones a couple of years back; as the winter sets in I'll be moving on to his other works I expect. I've also reflected on what I enjoy about them and have concluded that they are essentially upmarket soap opera. They fill the same gap that other people might use Eastenders or Coronation Street for.

[Razgovory]

"If trapped on a desert island with every member of Languish, who would be the best to cannibalize first?"

Well, I think you'd have to take down the fattest members first, because A) obviously they have more meat on them, and B) otherwise they'll eat everybody else up too quickly.  I'm not sure who's the fattest, though.

I guess this thread idea would have worked better then I thought.  Probably better then one my other thread ideas, "what is your social security number?". 

[Sheilbh]

I read the Palliser series this year and the Barsetshire ones a couple of years back; as the winter sets in I'll be moving on to his other works I expect. I've also reflected on what I enjoy about them and have concluded that they are essentially upmarket soap opera. They fill the same gap that other people might use Eastenders or Coronation Street for.

I think this is it. I know he's not as good as, say, Dickens but there's something compulsive about him. Also they're the only Victorian novels I've read that I almost imagine as a period drama.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not sure who's the fattest, though.

I bet The Brain knows.

[Scipio]

It's like church- it's not what I get out of it, it's what I put into it.

[garbon]

You put things into history?

[Jaron]

Church sucks too.

[Martinus]

"If trapped on a desert island with every member of Languish, who would be the best to cannibalize first?"

Well, I think you'd have to take down the fattest members first, because A) obviously they have more meat on them, and B) otherwise they'll eat everybody else up too quickly.  I'm not sure who's the fattest, though.

I guess this thread idea would have worked better then I thought.  Probably better then one my other thread ideas, "what is your social security number?".

You are constantly misspelling "than" as "then".

[Martinus]

I think you took that to literally, Yi.

What gave it away? 

Saying someone is dumber then Marty is like saying someone is "as dumb as a stump".  It's a figure of speech.  A hyperbole.  It's physically impossible to be that dumb.

It makes you look bad when you make spelling errors in the post in which you call someone dumb.

[sbr]

  Grammer nazi on the rag.